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Environments: Feedback
Today I tried fiddling with Environments beta feature on 1Password and wanted to leave some feedback. Background: We currently use AWS secrets for managing 200+ secrets in our application, but due to the lack of backups/redundancy I started looking at alternatives and considering we already heavily use 1P, I thought I'd give Environments a go. Generally speaking I love it. It is precisely what we need, however a few things came up along the way which I would like to share: [P0] The UI needs improvements (and probably soon). There's no sorting nor searching for variables, making it very diffcult to find stuff when you have 100s of variables. — on web variables don't show up at all. [P1] The AWS integration errors when the secret already exists. This made things a bit awkward for us, considering we manage our infra via Pulumi and we couldn't "create" the secret via Pulumi (had to do some hack to get around this). — this can become important if one wants to give 1P AWS role a very strict access (just the managed secret, not a wildcard policy as suggested in the docs). [P2] Ideally would be awesome to have a pulumi provider and fully manage Environments via pulumi (only the setup, not the variables). [P1] There is share with individuals but no share with "a team of people". Thanks again and keep up the good work. 🙌
Env var loading and validation for 1Password (open source!)
If you are using 1Password to manage any dev/application secrets, you might be interested in our open source tool - https://varlock.dev We just released a new update that introduces a plugin system and our first plugin is for 1Password (of course) - see https://varlock.dev/plugins/1password/ Our tool lets you define a .env.schema file, which can contain decorator style comments to add additional metadata to your env. This is then used to do validation, generate types, etc. The tool also introduces a new function call syntax, and while you can talk to any external cli using the exec() function, the new 1Pass plugin also adds a new op() function which fetches items from 1Password. So how is this different from using `op run`? Uses the SDK and service account tokens for deployed environments, and (optionally) uses op CLI for local dev (with biometric auth via the desktop app) Adds validation and coercion Automatic type generation (right now just for TypeScript, more to come) Understands which items are sensitive, and adds leak detection when possible Supports loading multiple env-specific files (.env.local, .env.production, etc) Supports explicit imports to break up files however you like Drop in integrations for many frameworks You can also use Varlock alongside the new https://developer.1password.com/docs/environments/ by syncing your environment to a local file (such as `.env.local`) and varlock will automatically load those values, and apply its validation on top. Would love for y'all to take a look, and to hear what you think! Oh and please give us a ⭐ on GitHub @ https://github.com/dmno-dev/varlock --- An example .env.schema file using the new 1Password plugin
Environments feature request: Add notes to variables & insert them as comments in the final .env
Hey folks! I'm really liking the Environments Beta, but one thing I'm missing is the ability to keep the comments I had in my old manual `.env` file. For example I have an API key that has no indication of which actual account it's for, so it would be really nice to be able to add this as a note in 1Password and have it end up in the resulting .env file. So in this example, the "API_KEY" variable would have a note attached in 1Password that said "Associated account is frobulator@example.com" and the resulting .env file would look like this: $ cat .env # This file was generated by 1Password. Any manual edits will be lost. # For more information, visit: https://developer.1password.com/docs/environments/local-env-file BASE_URL=https://prod.example.com # Associated account is frobulator@example.com API_KEY=uophfpanfphbofsgfoibCVHDFBahpis
Introducing new .env file support in 1Password
Today, we’re introducing a first-of-its-kind feature available in the 1Password Desktop app. With the new local .env file destination in 1Password Environments, you can securely use and share .env files across your team, without rewriting how your app loads credentials. Here’s why it matters: Zero plaintext secrets on disk: Secrets are loaded into applications on demand. You can’t accidentally commit them. No cumbersome sharing of secrets: Teammates get instant access - no DMs or copying secrets. Built for teams: Version history, access control, and automatic updates - all in one place. Offline access: No more internet connection required to load secrets from 1Password. Secrets are sourced directly from the desktop app's local cache. Now available in beta on Mac and Linux. Interested to see it in action? Watch the demo video below. Video not displaying? Watch it here. 💬 Share feedback, get swag We want your input on what to build next: CI/CD integrations? Docker support? Something else? 📖 Read the docs to get started 👉 Join the discussion in the 1Password Developer Community 🧢 The first 10 developers to start a discussion on the 1Password Developer Community Hub to share feedback by October 31st will get exclusive 1Password swag. Be sure to tag your post with beta-environments.
Environments: any plans for CLI/API support?
Our team would love to adopt Environments but are running into some limitations: Programmatic writes to Environments Are there plans to support creating/updating Environments and their variables via the 1Password CLI or 1Password Connect? Currently, AWS Secrets Manager is our source of truth for application secrets and we have a Lambda job that syncs those secrets into 1Password using the 1Password CLI. We’d love to switch that sync to populate Environments, but we can’t do that (yet?) without a write API/CLI for Environments. Headless/CI usage We’d like to use Environments in CI. Unless I’m missing something, mounting Environments appears to be configured solely through the UI right now. Is there a way (or plan) to support Environments in CI pipelines, e.g. via a GitHub Action? For context, today we make this work with 1Password CLI + secure notes + secret references, which is fine, but the named pipe pattern would simplify a lot of workflows for us. Thanks!1Password Environments Beta is awesome
Just wanted to drop some feedback after playing around with the new Environments Beta in 1Password. Honestly, I’m loving it so far. The local .env file mounting is just brilliant. Secrets are easy to access without having to run extra commands, but still secure – exactly what I want. Makes switching between machines seamless, too. A couple of things I’d really like to see next: 1. CLI Integration - being able to create/edit/list environments and variables from the terminal would make this so much more useful, right now, having to click around in the desktop app is a bit of a pain for dev workflows. 2. More integrations: AWS Secrets Manager is a great start, but would love to see GCP and other major providers such as GitHub, etc. A plugin system for integrations would be awesome also to help cover more niche players like Modal.com Overall, this is a huge step in the right direction for 1Password. Can’t wait to see where this goes next!
Mark environment variable value as optional
Hey community! The Environments feature came into a very fitting point for our team’s new project. We’re currently experimenting with it in order to replace the .env.template file conventionally used to denote the list of variables needed in a local dev env. There’s a small issue however (very similar use case to Tillman’s). Not all developers need all variables, and additionally there are variables that are personal to each user. So, after short experimentation we thought of the following suggestion: What if, alongside the key/value pairs that are persisted in the .env file (common for all users that have access to the .env file), there was a different entry type whose value wasn’t synced to the upstream? This way, 1. all users with access to the .env file would always have the up-to-date list of all variables used in the project, but 2. would be able to leave some values empty and let the code decide how to handle this case, and 3. would be able to add personal values (eg. API keys even via secret references) without leaking them to the rest of the users. What do you think?
Local Environment File Partial Override and Merging
First of all I am very pleased with the announcement of the new environment feature to mount into local .env files! For our use case it would be beneficial to allow merging different environments into the same .env file or to allow partial overrides of values locally that are persisting locking of the desktop application. For local development, we have a single starter .env file with a lot of empty values and not all of these values are used by all developers. For example we have an authentication related section that contains secrets that are per-developer. For example the developer specific Github PAT, Social Auth provider App identifiers and credentials. These should be still stored in the single env file that is used during development and we would like to avoid fragmentation into multiple files at the moment, as it complicates our containerized configuration. So I have two related feature requests: Would it be possible to allow merging of different environments into a single mounted file (conflict resolution aside for now)? Would it be possible to allow partial overrides of specific values based on the employee vault or local environment?
